I'm trying to be able to provide a URL in a newsletter that will take the reader to a page and show a specific event, rather than the entire calendar, requiring them to hunt around for the promoted event.

I figure the best way to do this is encode the eventid in the URL and then parse it out and pass it to the amelia shortcode.

Using developer tools, I can get to the .push line from the (in this example)  ameliaeventsbookinglist shortcode and the parameter I want to pass ($amelia_id, assigned in javascript) contains the correct value, however it seems the way I pass it in, it shows up as: 

ameliaShortcodeData.push(

    {
      'hasApiCall': (typeof hasEventApiCall !== 'undefined') && hasEventApiCall,
      'trigger': '',
      'trigger_type': '',
      'triggered_form': 'elf',
      'in_dialog': '',
      'counter': '1000',
      'employee': '',
      'eventId': '$amelia_id',
      'eventRecurring': 0,
      'eventTag': ""
    }

as you can see it just passes is as a string, is there anyway to get it out of the quotes other than changing the source?

or is there another way to pass a URL parameter to the shortcode?